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Grants & Funding
Federal Agency Public Access Requirements
Our guide on the upcoming federal agency public access policies outlines what you need to know, how you can prepare, and support available to you.
Biosketch Support
A biosketch is a short description of your professional identity often required for grant applications. Learn more about creating your biosketch for NIH and NSF in SciENcv
Finding Funding
Librarians can provide assistance with searching funding databases and creating funding opportunity alerts. We can also help Find Research Collaborators.
The NCSU Research Development Office provides access to:
- New funding opportunities
- InfoEd SPIN (funding database)
- Institutionally limited funding opportunities, internal funding programs (such as NC Sea Grant and NC Space Grant)
- External funding agencies
Grant Proposal Writing
The NC State University Libraries has many spaces, facilities, and technologies that may be useful for your NSF, NIH, and other agency grant proposals. Please request a consultation so that we can discuss your specific grant proposal requirements.
- Data Management Planning
- Broader Impacts Requirements
- NIH Grant Writing Tip Sheets (with tutorials and sample applications)
- Get support developing your biosketch for NIH and NSF in SciENcv
- Foundation Center
- Find books on proposal writing for grants
Sponsored Research and Public Access Compliance
Librarians can provide assistance with funding agency requirements, including data management plans. For more information, meet with a librarian or Ask Us.
Sponsored Programs & Regulatory Compliance Services (SPARCS)
SPARCS facilitates the submission of proposals, the negotiation of agreements, the administration of internally and externally funded projects, and the administration of subagreements that provide funding to NC State University. SPARCS provides online training on compliance and other topics.
Additional Resources
- NCSU Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB)
- Animal Care and Use (IACUC)
- Statistical Consulting Group, NCSU Department of Statistics
- Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center
Federal Grant Funding Agencies
Grants.gov - Find, apply for, and track federal grants from 26 federal grant-making agencies.
- Department of Education
- Department of Energy
- Environmental Protection Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
State Grant Funding Agencies
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